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Bard isn't cheap either, they have tons of instruments and many of them have HQ versions that are significantly more effective.
Also, I don't agree with pld being cheap - the 400k gluttony isn't much compared to what other jobs are buying at that level, but tank food was twice as expensive as DD food before the food changes. Who knows what it will settle out to now, but if it works out similarly, that adds up to a lot more gil being eaten for plds or tanking wars than for damage melees. (Still not as bad as rng or nin, of course, but nobody asked what was the most expensive job.) Also, PLD is the job that is most likely to need to upgrade its gear often, and to use HQ and upgraded NM gear (e.g. gaia mantle). No matter what nation you're from you will often want multiple pieces of conquest gear from other nations, which doesn't come cheap.
And whoever posted whm was cheap 1-50 is just out of their mind - even if you don't bother with half a million+ for astrals at level 10, there's still the 400k Erase at level 32 - which you can't sell back later like you can with the astrals. Whm may not be that expensive once you get past Erase, but it's the first job to have a really big cost - and nonrefundable at that. Now you can say that Erase is unnecessary like snipers, Ochiudos kote, etc. - something to spend extra money on if you have it and not necessary to do your job - but having used it myself now, it's about on par with Dispel in usefulness. It really is that good, and it's only because it's so difficult to get Erase and so difficult to get WHMs that Erase-less WHMs don't get passed over for forming parties.
I don't think there are any jobs that are cheap if you intend to do them right. Maybe BLM before 50 - but then you have all those staves and ancients in the 50s.
Also, I don't agree with pld being cheap - the 400k gluttony isn't much compared to what other jobs are buying at that level, but tank food was twice as expensive as DD food before the food changes. Who knows what it will settle out to now, but if it works out similarly, that adds up to a lot more gil being eaten for plds or tanking wars than for damage melees. (Still not as bad as rng or nin, of course, but nobody asked what was the most expensive job.) Also, PLD is the job that is most likely to need to upgrade its gear often, and to use HQ and upgraded NM gear (e.g. gaia mantle). No matter what nation you're from you will often want multiple pieces of conquest gear from other nations, which doesn't come cheap.
And whoever posted whm was cheap 1-50 is just out of their mind - even if you don't bother with half a million+ for astrals at level 10, there's still the 400k Erase at level 32 - which you can't sell back later like you can with the astrals. Whm may not be that expensive once you get past Erase, but it's the first job to have a really big cost - and nonrefundable at that. Now you can say that Erase is unnecessary like snipers, Ochiudos kote, etc. - something to spend extra money on if you have it and not necessary to do your job - but having used it myself now, it's about on par with Dispel in usefulness. It really is that good, and it's only because it's so difficult to get Erase and so difficult to get WHMs that Erase-less WHMs don't get passed over for forming parties.
I don't think there are any jobs that are cheap if you intend to do them right. Maybe BLM before 50 - but then you have all those staves and ancients in the 50s.
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